Olson: Splitting CPO and CTO roles creates beneficial organizational tension
Todd Olson · How to Measure Product Success // Todd Olson, Pendo (FirstMark's Data Driven) · Sep 28, 2017 · at 15:13
Todd Olson, founder and CEO of Pendo, explains the structural benefits of separating the Chief Product Officer role from the Chief Technology Officer role.
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“When you have a CTO separate from a CPO, it creates this natural tension where you have one person whose job is to kind of be driving the business, driving the strategy, and then the CTO is more focused on how it's done and also making sure that You know, I call it the illities. You know, there's high quality, high performance, scalability and in general, a good CTO says no a lot.”
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